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Table 3 Participants who reported they had never taken blood pressure medication: Mean Body Mass Index (BMI), total serum cholesterol, non-fasting serum glucose, and heart rate in HUNT2 and HUNT3 (a), and prevalence (%) of self-reported daily smoking, hard physical activity and diabetes in HUNT2 and HUNT3 by gender (b)

From: Blood pressure changes during 22-year of follow-up in large general population - the HUNT Study, Norway

  

Women

Men

(a)

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

BMI (kg/m2)

HUNT21

25.89

4.30

26.22

3.37

 

HUNT32

26.34

4.62

27.07

3.64

Total cholesterol (mmol/l)

HUNT2

5.85

1.32

5.77

1.17

 

HUNT3

5.34

1.14

5.48

1.06

Non fasting Se glucose (mmol/l)

HUNT2

5.27

1.23

5.47

1.50

 

HUNT3

5.32

1.22

5.59

1.53

Heart rate (beats/min)

HUNT2

75.27

12.16

71.06

12.42

 

HUNT3

71.87

11.03

68.34

11.31

(b)

 

%

 

%

 

Self-reported daily smoking

HUNT2

31.5

 

29.7

 
 

HUNT3

20.3

 

15.7

 

Self-reported hard physical activity

HUNT2

8.7

 

17.9

 

(>3 h/week)

HUNT3

20.7

 

26.1

 

Self-reported diabetes

HUNT2

1.7

 

2.3

 
 

HUNT3

2.1

 

2.6

 
  1. 1 Number of individuals with valid measures in HUNT2 varied from 28,807 to 29,423 in women and from 26,223 and 26,509 in men, except the question about physical activity which was answered by 20,112 women and 20,393 men
  2. 2 Number of individuals with valid measures HUNT3 varied from 19,254 to 22,065 in women and between 15,814 and 18,114 men, except the question about physical activity which was answered by 12,511 women and 10,108 men